in crescendo

in crescendo

1. increasingly, more and more
   • 2022 July 15, Patricia Ortega Dolz, “Los servicios de emergencia luchan contra 32 incendios, 15 de ellos sin controlar”, in El País‎^[1]:

     La evolución de los incendios en España va in crescendo debido a otra ola de calor que ha llegado solo semanas después de la registrada al inicio del verano y que mantiene en riesgo extremo de incendio a toda la península y las Islas Baleares.

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• “in crescendo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28